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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 44 Part 3

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Pasifista

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「I’m thinking of adding a new silo, but….」

「I might want one. The food is already overflowing, isn’t it? Even if we smoked it, it would just keep piling up anyway.」

Surrounding the table, now is a meeting time that has turned into a custom after breakfast.

Rather than a report on our respective activities, it’s more like a leisurely tea time.

「The edamame has become ripe enough for eating. The tomatoes are completely ripe, so I’ll float them in the well water.」

Thanks to the hard work of Akehi-senpai, the『Gardener』, the dining table has become a vegetable.

The clearing around the base has already turned into a vegetable garden.

It had quite the fairy tale-ish feeling to it, watching the seeds visibly sprout as she went hnn~ upon sowing them.

The tea that everyone is drinking is also the so-called freshly picked herbal tea.

It seems that she’s starting to breed herbs to suit the soil of the dungeon, but I think it’s fine even if she doesn’t go that far.

「Err, I’ve made a new bed. It’s a work I’m proud of.」

Anzu-senpai tightly clenches her fists and throws out her chest.

What we used as bedding in the beginning was the sleeping bag that each of us had brought with us.

We were all sleeping and huddling together, so we spread the bags and used them like a futon.

However, to be honest, the floorboards were hard and uncomfortable to sleep on, so we all unanimously wished for improvements.

As the result of testing a lot of things, we settled on a trampoline-style bed with a large piece of Ushi-oni leather hung like a hammock.

The moderate elasticity had been well received for the night scene, but it seems that a further improved version has been completed.

「I’ll install it later once I’m done with Hoodzuki-chan’s equipment, okay. It’s amazing you know, since the pointy is sharply popping out, after all.」

Hoodzuki-senpai nods her head to Mikan-senpai, who’s doing a banzai.

Hoodzuki-senpai is as petite as Mikan-senpai and is probably by far the most shy of the club members.

So even if we armed her with something too vicious, wouldn’t she be unable to use it, I wonder.

The other Senpais’『Armed Golem』 have already been customized and powered up, and they are also steadily getting proficient in actual combat.

The main line is on the interception style due to their mobility, but the spider shots equipped on all of them turn out to be more vicious than I imagined.

Moreover, Mikan-senpai has been laboriously creating additional armaments from monster materials.

「The reinforcement of the foundation is done, so I’m going to raise the tower another story.」

Umeka-senpai is tightly clenching her fists and burning.

By the way, the place where we are all having tea now is on the first floor of the base.

The first log house base had ended up getting burned down by the magic attack of the raiding students.

Let alone being sad, on the contrary Umeka-senpai seemed to end up having fire lit in her, and ended up constructing a sturdy fortress tower.

The quarried stones and brick-like burned, hardened blocks were the construction materials.

Right now it has turned into a three-story tower, including the basement.

Thinking back of it, it boasts sturdiness that can withstand the raiding students as well as monsters’ attacks.

It is already a small fort.

「I wonder, if they’ll attack us anytime soon…. Even though we’ve taken the trouble to set up new traps.」

Grinning widely, Rinko-senpai places her cheek on the hand she has crossed on the tabletop.

Damage traps are not lethal against students and monsters that have a kind of barrier called SP, but they are by no means entirely ineffective.

Besides, the main purpose of traps is to inhibit mobility.

Everyone was so terrified that they were close to bursting to tears during the first raid, but ever since they realized that they could fight too, they have desperately tried their best.

Them not going easy and striving to kill with all they’ve got due to them being desperate is a good thing, I think.

What makes battle against a person more troublesome than against a monster is the sense of psychological aversion.

「Really, they never learn, do they? Those bunch.」

Snorting with a humph, Kurumi-senpai crosses her arms.

「Their food is also limited, after all. I guess they must think it’s faster to rob than to procure it themselves.」

「… I hate, their eyes, filthy.」

「Yes. I absolutely hate those people.」

「I wish they could just die….」

It seems that the Senpais have gone through terrible experiences during their prior supplementary raid quests, so they raise no lukewarm opinion like helping each other or something.

Rather, it’s more like they resent them to the bone.

「Well, we also have a boy whose eyes are filthy here, though?」

Rinko-senpai disses me.

Meiron-senpai, who said she hated them, shaking her head as if in a panic is cute.

「I suppose for you, it’s like you’re enjoying the harem quest with everything you have, right, Touma-kun~? I mean, with the exception of when you are out hunting, you alwaaays do lewd things with someone, after all. Catching the girls working here and there in the base, you do lewd things here, and another lewd things there. And at night, you won’t let us sleep through the night until you’ve seeded all of us. Your male level is too high, really, I suppose I’m impressed.」

Everyone, including Mikan-senpai who is scratching her reddened cheeks and meekly showing a wry smile, is averting their reddened faces away.

「You’ve also accustomed Mikan-chan and Hocchin to be your exclusive use, after all, Touma-kun. I suppose you need to take responsibility.」

I think Rinko-senpai, who is widely grinning, is the one making filthy eyes.

「… By the way.」

「What is it, I wonder? Do you want to try out the comfortability of the new bed together with everyone?」

With Kurumi-senpai who mutters, Are you stupid…, in the lead, everyone becoming a bit eager is an emergency.

It’s too heavy for an exercise to help digesting breakfast.

「The base is getting more and more complete, so I’m thinking if we should set out to conquer the raid quest.」

It’s a life saver that our living environment is getting more and more comfortable, but the present state is that we’ve been leaving behind the most crucial point: conquering the raid.

In the time inside the dungeon, I think about a week has already passed.

Even though I’ve been maintaining my daily routine according to my timetable, the look of the sky being twilight all the time is as expected disgusting.

「Ah, yes. Err…. Touma-kun, could it be that you were intending to conquer the raid quest?」

On behalf of the Senpai sirs who are looking at each other, Rinko-senpai asks in a vague manner.

In the first place, isn’t the purpose we were sent to the『Goten no Zakurosan』 is to conquer the raid quest, I wonder?

The guys who attacked us seemed to be not much of a big deal ability-wise, but I thought it was a manpower conquering strategy, along the lines of human-wave tactics.

「Sheesh, you really are an idiot, aren’t you? If it were that easy to conquer, it wouldn’t have been designated as an『Extreme class』 for decades, duh.」

Kurumi-senpai, who lets out a sigh of exasperation, waves her hand.

By any chance, does that mean it’s a quest where conquering is not the prerequisite of it, I wonder?

If that’s the case, I can’t tell the point of sending us here for supplementary lessons.

「The reason is tentatively to thin out the monster population in the raid area, or so we were told. I’m not sure if that’s true or not, though.」

「You don’t seem convinced, huh. Hmm, then, have you learned about『Raid Quest』 yet, Touma-kun?」

I might have already learned about it in class, but I don’t remember, so I’m listening respectfully to Rinko-senpai’s special lecture.

First of all, about the word『Raid』, at the academy it seems to be used to mean『military warfare』.

In other words, it signifies a『group』, an army battle, as opposed to an『individual』 battle.

In addition to the term『Military Warfare Trials (Raid Quest)』, it seems to also be used such as for the subjugation of『Military Warfare Recommended Adversary (Raid Enemy)』.

In short, I guess the keyword is to beat them to pulps together with everyone.

「Well, I suppose something along those lines. Though, that much alone means you’ll be up against outlandish monsters.」

「I see.」

「And then the『Raid Quest』, in other words the one we’re participating in right now. This refers to the quest to conquer the singularity of the dungeon called the『Other Realm』, a dungeon that comes into existence within the dungeon.」

It’s already starting to go beyond my understanding, but at times like this, my steadfast poker face does a good job.

「The singularity, which originally is impossible to appear, is said to be a bug in the dungeon, I suppose. The goal of『Raid Quest』 is to conquer it and make it disappear. Emergency quests to subjugate『Military Warfare Recommended Adversary (Raid Enemy)』 that appear inside the normal dungeon are also called raid quests, but I suppose that’s not its original meaning.」

Except for Rinko-senpai, who holds up a finger and continues with the explanation as if she’s enjoying it, everyone else lets out a sigh as if to say… here we go again.

Most of the science type bright people seem to love to do an explanation.

I guess everyone is intending to abandon me as they all quietly leave their seats.

「To conquer a raid quest is to conquer the core of the singularity. As for the so-called core of the singularity, it is…」

Meiron-senpai, who pours me another cup of tea, is so kind.

But I wonder if she could take me out with her.

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